Social media is a pillar of many people’s daily lives.
The Digital 2022 April Global Statshot Report found that there are 4.65 billion social media users on the planet. That’s 58.7% of the global population, many of whom are using social media as a primary source of information.
From news (and disinformation) to lifestyle tips, decision-making to product research, social media users can gather all the information they need, without ever leaving their platform of choice.
And it’s not just
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Ivan, 31, spends his days trawling through photos, videos and personal accounts of atrocities: rape, torture, summary executions, illegal weapons, forced disappearances.
The task is not what Ivan ever saw himself doing. Just a few months ago, he was planning to launch a video-game development studio.
Looking away, however, is no longer an option in Ukraine — not since Russia blanketed the country with troops, bombs and brutality. Ivan started volunteering for the
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BERLIN — Russia’s war against Ukraine has thrust Germany’s establishment into the throes of a tortured process of introspection, self-doubt and recrimination.
After years of lecturing the West that a bit of Ostpolitik was all that was needed to keep Russia in check, Germany’s political, media and academic elites are now obsessing over a new question: How could we have been so wrong?
Rarely has a country’s confidence about itself and its place
Affiliate marketing has been experiencing explosive growth in recent years, so it’s essential now more than ever for brands to run affiliate programs of their own.
It involves brands hiring affiliates to promote their products and services and rewarding them with a commission from every sale.
As such, affiliate marketing is an excellent low-cost and low-risk way for brands to drive sales and brand awareness without hiring an in-house advertising and marketing team of their own.
Affiliate marketing spending is
Sometimes, it feels like everyone on the internet thinks they’ve been shadowbanned. Republican politicians have been accusing Twitter of shadowbanning—that is, quietly suppressing their activity on the site—since at least 2018, when for a brief period, the service stopped autofilling the usernames of Representatives Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows, and Matt Gaetz, as well as other prominent Republicans, in its search bar. Black Lives Matter activists have been accusing TikTok of shadowbanning since 2020, when, at the height of the George
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PARIS — Call them Emmanuel Macron’s praetorian guard.
As the French president prepares to seek reelection in April, he has turned to a select group of close advisers to help him in the battles ahead.
While Macron likes to hold court and seek input from a wide variety of sources, when it comes to strategic decisions, he relies on a small number of longtime loyalists, eschewing professional
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“WhatsApp must ensure that users understand what they agree to and how their personal data is used, in particular where it is shared with business partners.”
-European Commissioner for justice and consumer protection Didier Reynders
Story of the week: The European Commission gave WhatsApp until the end of February to explain how its privacy policy complies with
It’s hard to escape stories about people who made a fortune or lost it all buying and selling cryptocurrencies.
And it seems it is easier than ever to buy Bitcoin and Ethereum, and even dabble in the meme coin craze.
Much like stock exchanges, a crypto exchange allows regular traders to buy and sell coins, and exchange fiat currencies for cryptocurrencies.
Cryptocurrencies have hit new all-time highs in recent weeks as mainstream investors start to show an interest
While there
In late 2020, Facebook researchers came to a sobering conclusion. The company’s efforts to curb hate speech in the Arabic world were not working.
In a 59-page memo circulated internally just before New Year’s Eve, engineers detailed the grim numbers.
Only 6 percent of Arabic-language hate content was detected on Instagram before it made its way onto the photo-sharing platform owned by Facebook. That compared with a 40 percent takedown rate on Facebook.
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